The world until yesterday : what can we learn from traditional societies?

Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday, in evolutionary time, when everything changed, and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions. This book provides a firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years, a past that has mostly vanished, and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. The author does not romanticize traditional societies, after all, we are shocked by some of their practices, but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us.Přečíst více...

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Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday, in evolutionary time, when everything changed, and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions. This book provides a firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years, a past that has mostly vanished, and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. The author does not romanticize traditional societies, after all, we are shocked by some of their practices, but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us.

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Similarly, the Younger, chairman of Lee as last year, told the newspaper, the http://www.perfootwear.com/nike-free-run-3-womens-c-9.html and garment manufacturing center of gravity is not only to Southeast Asia, there may even return to Europe. "The textile and garment industry is not only capital-intensive...Přečíst více...

Similarly, the Younger, chairman of Lee as last year, told the newspaper, the http://www.perfootwear.com/nike-free-run-3-womens-c-9.html and garment manufacturing center of gravity is not only to Southeast Asia, there may even return to Europe. "The textile and garment industry is not only capital-intensive industry, and technology-intensive and capital-intensive industries to transfer part of the same time, part of the operation."

http://www.perfootwear.com/nike-free-run-2-mens-c-5.html is reported that Youngor Group last year to spend more than 400 million U.S. dollars acquisition of a shirt factory in Hanoi, Vietnam. This is Youngor an attempt to implement the transfer of overseas industrial base. According to Lee, such as introduction, Vietnam's labor prices are also lower than that of Ningbo. The future, the Vietnam plant will develop into one topped the shirt and processing base.

"Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday, in evolutionary time, when everything changed, and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions. This book provides a firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years, a past that has mostly vanished, and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. The author does not romanticize traditional societies, after all, we are shocked by some of their practices, but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us."@en